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Digital Film Poster Production

a) Use appropriate tools to gather the resources you need for the digital film poster production. Your film poster must show evidence of following film poster techniques and conventions.  This will be achieved by ensuring that your poster includes the appropriate elements:

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     Text – Title, tagline, billing block (optional)

·       Images- from the internet and/or original

·       Graphics- Film certification

*Remember that your poster will be interactive, as it will be linked to your radio advert for the film.

b) Construct your digital production taking into consideration; placement of elements, readability, quality of images, aesthetic qualities and placement of interactive elements.

FEEDBACK

Using each of your chosen platforms, present your final production to the client and approx. 3-5 your peers and gather comments on;

•        Readability
•        Resolution e.g. images, text
•        Interactivity (e.g. speed of the link to your radio advert)
•        Printing considerations- text size, fonts, image resolution
•        How they think your poster meet the brief and target audience.

Note down feedback from the client and your peers as a blog post. Use the feedback to, where necessary, make changes to your pages.

Digital Poster Proposal

By this point you should have carried out your poster research, reviewed your initial idea and produced, where relevant, alternative ideas.  You will now complete a Power-Point or Blog Proposal explaining:

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        1.  Describe your film poster idea and any changes made to the development of your                idea/why?

       

     2.  Target Audience (Age, Gender, Interests)

   

     3.  Justify how you will appeal to your audience in relation to the poster and platform      (Consider stylistic and technical codes e.g. colours, camera shots, fonts, effects, layout

     4.  Decide on two publishing platforms where your poster would be available. These could be; print e.g. newspaper, magazine, Internet e.g. website, online, handheld devices etc. 

      

HOMEWORK:  

Remember the Media Sectors and Producers Exam is on Monday 11th May. As next Monday is Bank holiday, there is no lesson.  Use this time to revise.  Click here for two revision papers that can be used to prepare for the exam.

Click here for a revision booklet to get you started

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Poster Development


Now that you have completed your initial research and considered your ideas for the film poster you will create, get some feedback to ensure your idea will be successful.  


1.  Each person will need to share their film idea.  The group will need to listen carefully and provide feedback.   Questions to consider- 

• Is the genre clear?  Can you correctly guess the genre? 
• Is the storyline clear? Does it make sense? 
• Could it be improved?  
• Do you agree with the intended audience?

2.  Once each person has explained their idea and received feedback, write a brief blog post summarising your response to the feedback outlining:

• Any changes you will make due to the feedback received
• What you learned from your poster research

3.  You will need to construct an inspiration board that should include evidence of the following:

• Images 
• Prop/costume list/examples
• Camera Shot list/examples of camera shots/angles
• Examples of Posters with appropriate style/layout
• Examples of potential colours for images/background/fonts
• Examples of possible font types for poster

HOMEWORK: 

Having completed your inspiration board, you will use this to help develop your ideas by creating a hand-drawn draft of your poster.  Due by your next Media Lesson.

Easter Holiday's Homework:

a)  Create a blog post or Word document outlining your film covering the following:

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•           Title and Tagline
•           Certificate e.g. PG, 15 or 18 etc.
•           Genre
•           Summary of the storyline (150-200 words)
•           Main characters (name, role, actors)

       b)  Conduct research into film posters from within the same genre as your own film. This will be done to develop an understanding of current practice and existing products.  You will need to collect 2 posters, import the posters into Power-point, Word, or Prezi and annotate in relation to:

•         Publishing platform used to access poster
•         Conventions used to make genre clear
•         What Techniques have been used to show it is a film poster?
•         Who is the Target Audience e.g. age, gender, ethnicity, interests etc.
•         What will the audience find appealing in the poster?